[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.5.2 make check fails

[Lee Hughes]

Temporarily granting full access for the postgres user to the regress  
directory tree did the trick -- thanks much Brent.

Lee

Quoting pcreso at pcreso.com:

> I'm no expert, but could this be related to root not having a  
> postgresql account, or the postgres user actually running the check  
> behind the scenes not having write access to that subdirectory?
>
> Brent Wood
>
> --- On Wed, 10/20/10, Lee Hughes <hughesl at science.oregonstate.edu> wrote:
>
>> From: Lee Hughes <hughesl at science.oregonstate.edu>
>> Subject: [postgis-users] PostGIS 1.5.2 make check fails
>> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
>> Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 8:59 AM
>> Running "make check" as root with
>> PGUSER=postgres results in:
>>
>> could not access file
>> "/usr/local/src/postgis-1.5.2/regress/00-regress-install/lib/postgis-1.5":
>> Permission denied
>>
>> in /tmp/pgis_reg_27083/regress_log
>>
>> I'm running this as root, and the
>> /usr/local/src/postgis-1.5.2 directory tree is owned by
>> root, so there should be no file permission issues. The
>> directory
>> usr/local/src/postgis-1.5.2/regress/00-regress-install/lib
>> does exist.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks-
>> Lee
>>